The Life of Graham Greene, vol 2: 1939-1955. National Review | February 6, 1995| | COPYRIGHT 1995 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

THERE has been a race on in the British biography market. Norman Sherry, Graham Greene's official chronicler, discovered he had two competitors: Michael Sheldon and Anthony Mockler. Mockler's threat was initially scotched by Greene's lawyers, with only brief sections of the book appealing in the Sunday Telegraph. But both battled on and, encouraged by Greene's death in 1992, threatened to beat Sherry to the post. Sheldon was offering the complete life, Mockler the first of two volumes, stopping at 1945. Given that Sherry was only taking us up to 1955, and that many of the ...

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